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Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage

Posted by samzenpus on from the born-to-rock dept.

ByOhTek writes "CNN reports that in July, rocker Ozzy Osbourne became one of few to submit his blood to have his full genome sequenced and analyzed. The results are in, and it turns out his genome reveals some Neanderthal lineage. What does Ozzie have to say about it? 'I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,' he wrote."

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  1. Bah by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Ozzy's DNA: GACCTAACGATGCTAGC...

    Lemmy's DNA: GODGODGODGOD...

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  2. Rich by bonch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ozzy, this isn't hard to figure out. You're alive because you're rich. You can afford a comfortable lifestyle as well as medical treatment when you need it.

    Now, please stop fighting with Iommi and make another Black Sabbath album already.

  3. Wait.... by Labcoat+Samurai · · Score: 5, Funny

    So in Ozzy-logic, you're better at surviving because you have Neanderthal DNA? The Neanderthals would likely disagree.... if they could ;)

    1. Re:Wait.... by Flea+of+Pain · · Score: 4, Funny

      Clearly we do. The Neanderthals were clearly all Dark Prince rock gods. Oh to live in times such as those...

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  4. More important... by NecroPuppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the gene variant they've found in him that has never been found in any other vertebrate.

    Ok, maybe not more important, be definately more interesting.

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  5. Re:Oh the irony. by Labcoat+Samurai · · Score: 4, Funny

    True, I have a feeling that if you threw Ozzie out into the wilderness to support himself via a hunting/gathering lifestyle, he would fail miserably, emphasizing his neanderthal heritage, but maybe if you took ancient neanderthals and threw them into the heavy metal lifestyle, they would have succeeded.

  6. Calls for some lyric revision by Bemopolis · · Score: 4, Funny

    I.
    Am.
    (Pre-) Iron (Age) Man
    (D)NAna-nana-nana, na na na.

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  7. Re:Wasn't there a study... by Labcoat+Samurai · · Score: 5, Informative

    The way I've always understood the classification is that we're Homo Sapiens Sapiens, and they were Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis, meaning they were a different subspecies, not genetically different enough to prohibit interbreeding.

  8. they studied keith richard's dna too by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    apparently it's backwards with him:

    the neanderthal genome reveals some lineage inherited from keith richards

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